POLARIZING FILM FOR WINDOW AND FRONT WINDOW FOR MEANS OF TRAVELING

• US 20090201583A1
• Filed: 04/19/2007
• Published: 08/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamada, Koh, Matsunami, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US12/304,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20090201583A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/486
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10036 comprising two outer glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10706 being photo-polymerized
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10853 the membrane being bag-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2605/08 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/007 Sunglare reduction by coatings, interposed foils in laminar windows, or permanent screens layered glass products B32B17/00; process of coating windows C03C17/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/06 using polarising effect
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 20/00 Nanooptics, e.g. quantum optics or photonic crystals
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/007 containing a dispersed phase, e.g. particles, fibres or flakes, in a continuous phase
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/34 with at least two coatings having different compositions C03C17/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/475 Inorganic materials
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/734 comprising an alternation of high and low refractive indexes
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 27/10 with the aid of adhesive specially adapted for that purpose
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2207/101 Nanooptics
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3033 in the form of a thin sheet or foil, e.g. Polaroid
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3058 comprising electrically conductive elements, e.g. wire grids, conductive particles

Abstract

There is provided a front window for means of traveling, which contains at least a base, a polarizing film, and a anti-reflection film, wherein the polarizing film contains at least an anisotropic absorber, and the anisotropic absorber has a reduction ratio of a parallel polarized light (s-polarized light) included in incident light of 90% or less.

Claims

1. A polarizing film for a window, comprising at least:

an anisotropic absorber,

wherein the polarizing film has a reduction ratio of horizontally polarized light (s-polarized light) included in incident light of 90% or less.

2. The polarizing film for a window according to claim 1, wherein the anisotropic absorber has an average aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, and the anisotropic absorber is orientated so that a major axis of the anisotropic absorber and a horizontal plane of the polarizing film are horizontal.

3. The polarizing film for a window according to claim 2, wherein the major axis of the anisotropic absorber is orientated so as to have an angle of ±

30°

or less with a horizontal plane of the polarizing film.

4. The polarizing film for a window according to claim 1, wherein the anisotropic absorber is an anisotropic metal nanoparticle, or a carbon nanotube.

5. The polarizing film for a window according to claim 4, wherein a material of the anisotropic metal nanoparticle is at least one selected from the group consisting of gold, silver, copper and aluminum.

6. A front window for means of traveling, comprising at least:

a base;

a polarizing film; and

a antireflection film,

wherein the polarizing film comprises at least an anisotropic absorber, and the anisotropic absorber has a reduction rate of a parallel polarized light (s-polarized light included in incident light of 90% or less).

7. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6, wherein a plane of the base and a horizontal standard plane make an angle of 20 degrees to 50 degrees, and an average direction of an absorbance axis of the anisotropic absorber contained in the polarizing film is orientated at an angle of less than ±

30 degrees to a line at which a plane of the base and the horizontal standard plane are crossed.

8. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6, wherein the polarizing film is disposed on a surface of the base which faces inside of the means of traveling.

9. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6, wherein the antireflection film is disposed at an outermost surface of the front window which faces inside of the means of traveling.

10. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6,

wherein the base is a laminated glass which comprises two sheets of plate glass and an intermediate layer disposed in between the two sheets of the plate glass, and

wherein the intermediate layer comprises the polarizing film.

11. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6, wherein the base is a polymer panel article and the polarizing film is disposed on a surface of the base or inside of the base.

12. The front window of means of traveling according to claim 6, wherein the means of traveling is a car.